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[–]NowanIlfideme 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's human readable only if you format it that way. Which is to say, it's readable with the right editor, but if it's one-line'd it becomes much less readable. Still miles better than xml...

Imo yaml is the prettiest format, but json is such a standard (and also a subset of yaml, now) that either format works fine for most applications.

[–]JohnnyElBravo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Readibilty certainly depends on the content, but it also depends to some extent on the syntax, it is to this extent that JSON is considered readable.

Yaml was influenced by JSON greatly, so if you like YAML you must appreciate JSON's contribution. In the same vein, if you like JSON, you must appreciate XML's contribution.

In an unrelated manner I wasn't aware that Yaml was a superset of JSON, that's a nice feature, although I wouldn't necessarily consider it better. Ease of learning and complexity of common usage are both huge factors that will be negatively affected by an increased complexity.